“Devilish near, was it not? Yesterday I was of opinion that to lose the question by one would have been the best thing for us; but I don’t think so now. . . . Everybody likes winning, and it keeps people’s spirits up. . . . I went into Crocky’s after the opera, being determined to wait the result, and there were quantities of people in the same mind, friends and foes, but we were all as amicable and merry as we could be. A little before five [a.m.] our minds were relieved by the arrival of members without end—friends and foes—and I must say (with the exception of young Jack Shelley) the same good temper and fun were visible on both sides.”
